Videocameras and Mini-VideoCameras: 720 v 1080

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  1. EL PRESIDENTE

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    I take a while to buy stuff too. I have access to some nice video equiptment, a pro-level Sony and that Canon HF20 at work...the main thing is I like to travel light and easy.

    For example, I will travel with only a point and shoot versus bringing an SLR. I wanted to see if taking the small camcorder would suffice versus having the bigger Canon compact camcorder.


    Portability and ease is probably my number one concern. I just don't want to end up at home with crappy video, if its "decent" then I'm fine with it.
     
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    See this is what I kind of had in mind. this is me shooting on my little compact camera, its in 720 resolution but its still a bit grainy and shitty (my technique sucks, yeah, I'm trying to get better).

    [video=youtube;g63mndn6HUc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g63mndn6HUc[/video]

    but I wanted to have on my TV 5-7 minute travel videos of places I go I can watch easily (going to use WD live I think to do so).
     
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    see for a lot of the shots, me with a camcorder will be kind of strange....i like "quick hit" videos of daily life.
     
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    He's trying to pull.
     
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    crap, can't export 1920x1080 video on imovie. only lets me do 720.

    i took some test today too. let me play around wiff i.
     
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    Two points.

    Most HD TVs, particularly ones sold in the last 3-5 years, are 1080p, not 1080i. A 1080p TV will play 1080i just fine, in fact I don't think it would be any worse than 1080p because the TV has to deinterlace the 1080i anyway and the 1920x1080 pixels are the same. Of course the video source and compression makes a huge difference in picture quality. 720 on a 1080 TV has to be stretched to fit the screen - there simply aren't enough pixels in the source. Crappy compression means crappy picture. Crappy camera (optics, electronics) means crappy picture, too.

    Second, how to export 1080 HD movies from iMovie:

    http://www.maciverse.com/export-hd-video-from-imovie-09.html
     
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    damn, uploading the 720HD version of it right now. I'll do a 1080 export and see how it looks on youtube.
     
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    Sweet, its a little different, I have a new version. I set it to 60fps x 1080. Should I have deinterlaced the video?
     
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    Depends on how you're going to play it. From a PC with HDMI, it probably does 1080p and I wouldn't deinterlace it.

    If you're going to burn a DVD that isn't blu ray, then 1080i or even 720 would be ok.
     
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    crap, fucked up the white balance a bit...I had it set to "floursecent" light on the top one and "auto white balance" on the second. hmmmm.....they still look comparable...who knows what it looks like on TV though.
     
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